Nice Day for a Cruxifiction

Beautiful day ain't it? Well, for most of us. Somehow or other, I started getting messages from a Christian artist named Tom Graffagnino. Could have been from a post I left on a Godblog somewhere. Anyway, here's one he sent me this morning:

"Well, Good Morning, Ms. Schiavo.....Yes, Good Friday's finally here.Nice
day for crucifying.For the Legalists, it's clear.We saw the Pharisees reviewing
every tittle...every jot...This "letter of the law"-thing, is a killer, is it
not? Is it true that you're not guilty Of a crime?.....(That's what
we've heard!)Yet the Blind Guides have passed judgment....Moral Insight clearly
blurred.Legalistic HumanismIs the trap.....The Fowler's Snare.It's a deadly way
of seeing:The yeast the Lord said to
beware.
*********
One may wonder where we're headed...Some have said we've lost our way.Thank
you, Jesus, for revealingGrace and Truth on Easter Day! Please Lord have Mercy
on us!As again we see our Sin...Like the Pharisees before us,We took the
tempter's bait again."

Through just about every letter he wrote, Paul chided the Pharisees for their higher faith in the law than in God. In Romans 3, Paul declared "through the law we become conscious of sin." So the law is not an end of itself. Rather it's a means to receive faith; "Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed." Law was given to us to make us conscious of our shortcomings and sin. Now our Pharisees in the black robes are worshiping that which they have created, thus have become the fools Paul warned the Romans of. Yesterday, I listened in disgust to the Hugh Hewitt program as a collection of Pharisee fools debated the law surrounding Terri Shiavo. Some claiming case law supported taking her off this death march. Others saying the law is there to provide this "freedom of choice." Huh? Just when did this brain damaged woman sit up and say, "Please dehydrate me to death!" This is Michael Shiavo's choice. He says it's hers, but only he and God know if that's a lie.

This isn't about the law. This is about life, love, and everything we were commanded to do by Christ. Let's talk about "Thou shall not Kill" if you want to discuss legalisms. Execution by dehydration is not love.